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SAS® Data Surveyor for SAP
Providing the environment to turn all your SAP data into mission-critical intelligence
What is SAS Data Surveyor for SAP? SAS Data Surveyor for SAP provides ETL designers with the ability to extract, search, navigate and understand complex SAP data structures so that SAP data can be integrated with other data sources, analyzed or used in conjunction with SAS solutions.
Why is SAS Data Surveyor for SAP important? It enables organizations to quickly and efficiently integrate SAP data with other data sources, providing a complete view of the enterprise for business intelligence and reporting needs. The ability to find and understand information stored within SAP using a wizard-driven graphical interface that automatically tracks and stores metadata makes it easier to manage and maintain the intelligence creation process.
For whom is SAS Data Surveyor for SAP designed? SAS Data Surveyor for SAP is designed for ETL developers and decision support users seeking to integrate SAP data with other disparate data sources or exploit SAP data for decision support needs.
Key Benefits
- Save time, money and resources. SAS Data Surveyor for SAP allows users to quickly find necessary data without having to understand SAP data structures. An easy-to-use interface and powerful metadata search capabilities enable ETL designers to search, browse and quickly locate relevant information from the thousands of tables and database schemas in SAP applications.
- Reduce maintenance overhead. With SAS Data Surveyor for SAP, no custom (ABAP) coding is needed to get to SAP applications data. Instead, all relevant extraction information is stored as metadata that is easily managed and maintained, and routines can be reused by other developers and engineers.
- Manage data on an enterprise scale. SAS is the only software that enables you to manage data on an enterprise scale, allowing the integration and management of all data sources on all platforms. It provides the perfect environment for helping you turn all SAP data into mission-critical business intelligence.
Key Features
- Access all your SAP data. SAS Data Surveyor for SAP exposes data from both SAP R/3 ERP systems and SAP BW systems, also known as SAP Business Information Warehouse. You can explore metadata from your entire SAP suite without the need for specialized SAP knowledge.
- Powerful metadata search. The Metadata Search, incorporated in the SAS Data Surveyor for SAP, allows IT users to search, browse and identify complex ERP data structures.
- Flexible searching options. The SAS Data Surveyor for SAP provides flexible search capabilities that allow ETL developers to easily get the necessary information based on input from users. You can search by entity model, fields, columns and tables.
- SAP specific transformations. Only SAS has SAP specific transformations, such as the snowflake denormalization routines, which change the complex data structures of SAP BW into standard star schemas that are far more suitable for analysis.
- Automatic code generation. SAS Data Surveyor for SAP automatically generates the code necessary to retrieve the required data from SAP applications.
- Integrated data quality. With SAS Data Surveyor for SAP integration in SAS Data Integration Studio, it is a point-and-click process to run SAP applications data through SAS data quality routines.
For a complete list of key benefits and features, refer to the SAS Data Surveyor for SAP fact sheet  .
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